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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

any liability imposed by the said Section 85L. as said section

stood before the repeal thereof, and which existed at the time

of the passage of the Act of 1904 hereinbefore referred to.

This section shall become operative as of January 1, 1903,

and shall cause the abatement of all actions at law which shall

have been brought against said stockholders since that date

to enforce any liability created by Section 85L as said section

stood before the repeal thereof, and which existed at the time

of the passage of the Act of 1904 hereinbefore referred to;

provided, however, that as to any plaintiff or plaintiffs in any

of said abated suits who shall within sixty days from the pas-

sage of this Act become a party or parties to a bill in equity

Statute of lim-

of the character mentioned in this section, then, as regards

itations.

the operation of the Statute of Limitations upon the claims

so sued on, the time elapsed between the institution of said

abated suits and the time of such plaintiff or plaintiffs be-

coming a party or parties to said bill in equity, shall be ex-

cluded in ascertaining the period within which suits are re-

quired to he brought by the said Statute of Limitations. The

costs taxable to any plaintiff or plaintiffs in any action at law

which shall be abated under the provisions of this section,

the plaintiff or plaintiffs in which action shall become a party

or parties to a bill in equity under the provisions of this sec-

Become part
of the costs.

tion, shall become a part of the costs taxable in the proceedings

in said equity case.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 338.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Balti-

more to issue the stock of said corporation to an amount

not exceeding one million dollars for the extension of the

present park system of the City of Baltimore, and for the

development and improvement for park purposes of the

lands over which it shall be so extended, in such manner as

the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall by ordinance

prescribe ; to authorize the submission of an ordinance to

that end to the legal voters of said city ; to empower the

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to acquire, by con-

demnation or otherwise, within the City of Baltimore, and